Let me first of all define what internal services means to the Privy Council Office, and as the ADM for corporate services branch, I'm uniquely placed to do that. It includes finance, planning, HR, IT, information management...I'll just stop at information management for a bit, because at the Privy Council Office that includes all of the correspondence to support the Prime Minister, the portfolio ministers, and the department itself. Then it includes all of the record keeping, including the cabinet document system—information management. It includes the administration division, so it's in charge of the 16 buildings in which we are located, contracts, mail room, and of course access to information and privacy. Those are internal services, all of those areas that fall under my purview, plus at the Privy Council Office it includes legal services and security operations, which report up through other structures.
On April 25th, 2013. See this statement in context.